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HIstory 2010 Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New England Emigrant Aid Society | Sent to Kansas for a profit |
| Republican Party | Arose over dissatisfaction of K-N Act, anti-slavery whigs, free soilers, Northern Democrats |
| Know Nothing | Nativist party, only Americans, groups of secret fraternal men, Native born Protestant, James Barker |
| Bleeding Kansas | Kansas civil war between pro-slavery and freesoilers |
| John C. Fremont | Republican choice for 1856; military hero |
| James Buchanan | 1856 Democrat elect; becommes president, supported Compromise of 1850 and K-N Act |
| Dred Scott Decision | Moved into free territory with owner and return to St. Louis, sues for freedom: wins on appeal, Emerson's wife appeals and goes to MO Supreme Court who rules against him. |
| John Brown | Came up with the idea of raid to the Appalachian Mountains financed by the Secret Six; martyr; abolitionist |
| Cooper Union Address | 1) Rejects popular sovereignty2) Examines southern attitudes toward North and Republican Party3) Condemns Northern Radicals4) Calls for sectional understanding |
| South Carolina | seceded from the Union first |
| Popular Sovereignty | settlers chose whether it is a slave state or a free stateupon entering Union |
| Free Soiler | person who doesn't want to see slavery expand further |
| Abolitionist | person who wants to abolish slavery totally; free soldiers, radicals, and extremists |
| David Acheson | pro-slavery force |
| James Henry Lane | free slave |
| Stephen Douglas | wrote Kansas-Nebraska Act; wrote Freepoint Doctrine |
| Copperheads | (Peace Democrats), Northern Democrats who opposed the war |
| George B. McClellan | organized troops for Army of Ponotac; afraid to use his army for fear of failure |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | brought back Abe Lincoln, written by Stephen Douglas, split Democrats and blew away Whigs, started Republican party, lifted ban on slavery, divided into two territories-- Kansas and Nebraska |
| David Wilmont | wrote Wilmont Proviso |
| James Barker | started the Know Nothing Party |
| Franklin Pierce | President of 1852 |
| Constitutional Union Party | John Bell; favor constitution, unio, remnants of the Know Nothing Part |
| John Bell | Founder of Constitutional Union Party; presidential candidate |
| Doe Face | Northerners with Southern principles or symapthies |
| Hinton R. Helper | freak abolistionist; wrote the Impending Crisis of the South and How to Meet it |
| Peculiar Institution | slavery in general in the south |
| domestic institution | slavery within a state |
| Wilmont Proviso | 1846 David Wilmont introduced into Conress; exclude slavery from expanding into the territories we acquired from Mexico; South blocked it in HOR |
| Jefferson Davis | confederate President |
| 7 innovations made the civil war first modern war | 1) Railroads2) Mass production of arms (weapons)3) Rifled Weapons4) Joint ground and naval tactics5) Ironclad weapins6) Trench Warfare7) Telegraph |
| 4 Slave States that remained in the Union | 1) Delaware2) Maryland3) Kentucky4) Missouri |
| 11 States that compromised the Confedarcy | 1) Tennessee2) Virginia3) South Carolina4) North Carolina5) Arkansas6) Mississippi7) Texas8) Florida9) Louisian10) Alabama11) Georgia |
| 4 Important Consequences of the Battle of Antietam | 1) slowed/blunted Southern Momentum2) increased Northern morale3) Great Britain on the verge of recognizing confedaracy4) Allowed Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation |
| 3 Reasons South Carolina seceded from the Union | 1) North's long attack on slavery2) the coming to power of an antislavery sectional political party (Republicans)3) Election of a president whose opinions and purpose were a threat to slavery |
| Northern Strengths | 1)22 million population & 23 Northern and Border States, Heavy European immigration2)Balanced Economy a) advanced industry b) prosperous agriculture c) strong banking capitol3)North had a highly dev. railroad system4)Merchant Marine & Navy |
| Southern Weaknesses | 1)9 mil. population,3.5 mil. slaves2)agricultural economy a)poorly dev. industry b)weak banking capitol3)inadequate railroad sysytem;broke down before war was over4)geogra.;Great Valley of Virg.,TN Valley,Miss Valley offered excellent invasion |
| fire eater | southern radical; strong state's rights; lmtd federal gov.; slavery |
| Voluntary Reconstruction | when states would return to Union without force |
| John P. Hale | cadidate for Free Soil party |
| West Virginia | Formed and added to the union as civil war |